Example sentences of "be [verb] us [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
| 2 | He says : ‘ There are great forces at work , and they 've already embraced us in a world market , they 're sweeping us towards a European destiny . |
| 3 | The Government are leading us to a shambles . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort . |
| 5 | Our client should be presenting us with a sheaf of paper with pink ribbon round it , saying , we would like a tender on that , fixed fee , by two weeks on Tuesday , or whatever . |
| 6 | ‘ Could Hitler be lulling us into a false sense of security ? ’ |
| 7 | To no avail : my resolution was never called for debate and another , that if the SNP were to approach us with a view to talks ( an unlikely event after the Pollok by-election ) we would not close the door , was passed by a narrow majority . |
| 8 | The general effect of moral rules linked with the category distinction normal/abnormal is to provide us with a sense of social order . |
| 9 | Our very success is leading us into a dangerous future … |
| 10 | Whereas identification of an E may quite easily be aided by the introduction of a P actually applicable to a different E , to claim completeness of an E and a P when the latter neither helps to identify the former nor is applicable to it is to leave us with a construction which does nothing coherent at all . |
| 11 | Two five five , the reason why the Executive asked for withdrawal was because it 's moving us a bit too fast along this track , and it 's moving us in a particular direction before we 've had the time to think about whether that 's the right direction to go . |
| 12 | What , I had in mind is to get us to a point where if we decided that we do want to recruit somebody we can do that within er er a much shorter time scale than than our |
| 13 | Our apparel was given us as a sign distinctive to discern betwixt sex and sex , and therefore for one to wear the apparel of another sex , is to participate with the same , and to adulterate the verity of his own kind . |
| 14 | In other words , it was costing us about a pound an hour in water . |
| 15 | These clothes were got from a pawnshop in Kendal ; the rouge came from an acquaintance of Mrs Charlotte Deans , the actress ; the chaise was loaned us by a young friend of mine whose father owns the chief coaching firm in the town . |
| 16 | I thought he was telling us about a mountain he climbed . |